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By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington this morn
ing: The U.S.A. is producing million
aires at (he fastest clip since the
get-rich-quick era of the 1920s.
The Internal Revenue Service,
in Us latest tabulation on the sub
ject, reports that 398 persons
filed returns showing income of a
million dollars or more in 1961.
This was the largest number
since 1929, when the stock market
was at the peak of its stratospher
ic binge and a record total of
513 taxpayers paid taxes on in
comes of a million dollars or
more.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Back in 1929, we thought we
could get rich quick by big-time
gambling in stocks which, we
were assured, would keep on go
ing up and WOULDN'T EVER go
down because this was a rich
and growing nation that would
go on indefinitely producing more
and more wealth.
We're going now on the theory
that a nation can SPEND IT
SELF RICH by the simple proc
ess of spending it high, wide and
handsome and PUTTING IT ON
THE CUFF.
We are assured in these days
that our skyrocketing debt can
never bother us because it will
all be taken care of by our sky
rocketing production.
Let's hope so.
But history has an annoying
habit of repeating itself. One of
its lessons is that bad habits that
have caused trouble before can
cause trouble again.
In a speech in Albany (N.Y.)
yesterday, Governor Nelson Rock
efeller declared that a major
strategy of Goldwater-for-Presi-dent
partisans "would not only
defeat the Republican party in
11164 but would destroy it alto
gether." In the same statement, he
called upon Republicans every
where "to unite in opposition to
the radical right lunatic fringe,"
which he said, "is embarked on a
determined and ruthless effort to
lake over the party, its platform
and its candidate on its own
terms."
Well, there IS a radical right
lunatic fringe.
There is also a radical left
lunatic fringe.
1,1 So
Let's put it like this:
THE HOPE OF OUR NATION
LIES IN THE HARD-HEADED,
COMMON-SENSE MIDDLE.
The fringes on both sides are
DANGEROUS.
Fires Damage
Forest Lands
SALEM iUPIi - Eight fires,
teven of them caused by light
ning, were reported on state pro
tected forest lands over the week
end. A blaze in the LaGrande area
w as caused by a careless camper
and burned about one acre.
All of the fires were small and
occurred east of the Cascades.
The largest, on the California
border south of Klamath Falls,
covered a little more than an
Two Oregon
Youths Drown
By I'nitrd Press International
Two Oregon youths drowned
Saturday in swimming accidents.
Army Pfc. Paul Isaacs, 19, Cor
vailis, drowned in the Kansas
River near Manhattan, Kan. He
wa& stationed at nearby Fort
Riley.
Dale Williams. 16. SMers, lol
his life in Scout Lake west o( that
Dcchutes County town.
v -ft'! 5
r,t7R DOKRIa borne ot the
early last mght took the form
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Weal her
Klimith Palls, Tutclikt ind Lakeview
Fair through Tuesday except for iso
lated afternoon thundersnowers in the
vicinity. Low tonight 37 to 43. Hiqh
Tuesday 77 to SO. Northwesterly winds
S to 15 m.p.h.
High yesterday ai
Low this morning 45
High year ago 72
Low year ago 44
Precip. last 24 hours .oo
Since Jan. 1 4.12
Same period last year 1.11
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rorkers Strike
By United Press International
A strike by two Northwest lum
ber unions against the Georgia
Pacific Corp. began this morning
with a walkout by 400 gangsaw
and plywood mill workers at To
ledo. Earl Hartley, executive secre
tary of Region 3, Lumber and
Sawmill Workers Union (LSW),
Wirtz Says
Railroads.
Unions Fail
WASHINGTON (UPD-A spe
cial presidential committee
studying the facts in the railroad
work rules dispute hopefully
will submit its report Friday to
President Kennedy, a Labor De-i
partmcnt spokesman said today.
Railway company and union
representatives met today to in
form the panel of their concept
of the issues. At a similar meet
ing Tuesday, the parties will out
line for the panel their positions
on the issues.
A closed session of the special
committee will be held Wednes
day and "the report to the Pres
ident hopefully will be submitted
jon Friday," a spokesman said
This would be three days before
the original target date.
The special committee was ap
pointed by President Kennedy to
make recommendations for a so
lution to the deadlock over new
work rules. Kennedy intends to
use the committee's report as a
basis for proposals to Congress:
next Monday to end the dispute.
The railroads have agreed to
postpone until July 29 imposition!
of new work rules which even
tually would eliminate the jobs
of 37.000 firemen on diesel loco
motives. The unions have reject
cd all proposals for arbitration of
(he dispute saying most of the
firemen are needed as a safety,
measure.
Chances that both sides would
settle the dispute without outside
help were dim. Labor Secretary
W. Willard Wirtz said Sundav
both railroad management and
the five operating unions were
assuming that the government or
Congress would settle it and
"there is no affirmative attempt"
to break the deadlock.
Wirtz, in a television interview.
said there slill were "all man
ners of procedures" that could
be used for settling the dispute
short of compulsory arbitration.
He said "every single proposal
which has been made in this case
has been immediately labeled as
compulsory arbitration." But he
said this had not been true and
President Kennedy's suggestion
that the dispute be referred to
Supreme Court Justice Arthur J.
Goldberg "would have permitted
a form of mediation" leading to
a settlement. He said arbitration
would have been "only as a last
resort."
There is still time for media
tion, Wirtz said. He said the best
procedure would be for the unions
and railroads to solve the matter
themselves "to protect the whole
institution of collective bargain
ing." If arbitration becomes neces
sary the dispute must be recog
nized as a special case, the sec
retary aid. It must be made
"dead clear" that collective bar
gaining still is functioning, he
said. '
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2 I freight cars which were
of twisted steel as they
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said more men will be off the job
Tuesday.
In addition to the Toledo opera
tions, the LSW represents work
ers at Coquille, Springfield, and
Pilot Rock, Ore., and Eureka,
Feather Falls and Woodleaf, Calif.
An LSW spokesman said the big
Springfield operation, which in
cludes two plywood mills and a
fiber-ply plant, would be closed
Tuesday. The union has 750 mem
bers in those plants.
IWA Slill Working
The International Woodworkers
of America (IWA) kept all its
members on the job at Georgia-
Pacific operations today. Presi
dent Harvey Nelson or the West
ern Regional Council reported.
The IWA represents workers at
Coos' Bay, SpringfieWand Toledo
in Oregon; Olympia, wash., and
Woodleaf, Calif. Members at Tole
do are in the woods crew and were
not affected by the LSW walkout
there. The plants at Coos Bay
Coquille and Olympia were not
scheduled to resume work after
the Fourth of July vacation until
Tuesday.
The strike was called alter ne
gotiations with the company broke
down Wednesday. Company olli
cials estimated 7.000 employes
would be affected if all G-P oper
ations in three western stales
were struck.
Some 21.000 lumber workers are
already idle because of the con
tract dispute in the Northwest
but there were some hopeful signs
in the situation today.
Big Six, Unions Talk
Representatives of the unions
met in Portland with negotiators
for the so-called "Big Six" bar
gaining group, representing U.S.
Plywood, St. Regis Paper Co.,
Weyerhaeuser. Crown Zcllerbach,
International Paper Co. and Ray
onier. It was the first time the two
unions have met jointly with that
employer group. All other meet
ings have been conducted with
one of the unions while officials
of the other sat in as an observer.
A strike against U.S. Plywood
and St. Regis June 5 and the re
sulting shutdown by the other
four firms accounted for much of
the idleness in the industry.
The unions also are scheduled
to meet jointly with Simpson Tim
ber Co. Tuesday. Simpson, like
Georgia-Pacific, has been negoti
ating independently.
New Lead In
Prof umo Case
LONDON (UPll-A court ruling
hinted today at new sensations in
the Profumo case w ith the revela
tion of a mysterious tape record
ing made by play girl Christine
Kecler.
The possibility o( further dis
closures in the scandal (hat
forced the resignation of War
Minister John Prolumo arose
when a court granted an appeal
to a Negro jazz musician who
was convicted of beating up
Christine. The appeal was based
on the argument that there was
"important new evidence" in the
tape recording Christine made
when she was "high as a kite."
Two policemen were sent by
the court to take possession ol
the tape recording made by
Christine whose relationship with
Prolumo had threatened to topple
the Conservative government o
Harold Macmillan.
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were photographed this morning. At left, five boxcars ( one partially obscured I tore
up part of a field as they rumbled off the tracks and collapsed against one another.
Tax Cut
Mulled By
Drafters
WASHINGTON (UPI) House
lax writers today went back to
their task of drafting a bill ex
pected to provide a cut of be
tween $8 billion and $10 billion in
individual and corporate income
taxes.
The House Ways & Means Com
mittee was set to resume closed
sessions on President Kennedy's
tax cut proposal alter a recess of
more than three weeks while
staff aides drew up a tentative
measure.
Chances are still considered bet
ter than 50-50 that Congress will
enact a tax cut this year despite
the legislative tieup threatened
by the coming fight over civil
rights legislation.
The tax reduction would be ef
fective next Jan 1.
Although the White House has
hopes of faster action, it is doubt
ful that the tax bill will be ham
mered into final form and steered
to the House floor for a show
down vote before mid-August.
Before the tax bill can emerge.
the Ways & Means Committee
must (1) make final decisions on
(he many structural changes in
the tax code which it has tenta
tively approved; (21 decide
whether to curb the favorable tax
rales now provided on income
from stock dividends; and (3) de
cide how much to reduce indivi
dual and corporale income tax
rates.
The tentatively approved revi
sions would net about $600 mil
lion of the $3.6 billion in new an
nual revenue with which Kennedy
had hoped to partly offset the tax
rate cuts he proposed. Kennedy's
program envisioned a net tax re
duction of $10.4 billion.
Working on the staff - drafted
legislation embodying tcntativel
decisions, the committee will
tudy the measure item-by-ilem
and line-by-line before rcachingi
its final verdicts. This alone may
take two weeks.
Zelma Ochiho
Draws Seven
Years, Fined
Zelma Joan Ochiho was sen
tenced to seven years in the slate
penitentiary and fined $1,500 by
Circuit Court Judge Donald A. W.
Piper at 10 a.m. Monday alter
Mrs. Ochiho pleaded guilty to
manslaughter Friday in the gun
slaying of Florence Baker Huitt.
Mrs. Ochiho's first degree
murder trial last week ended
with a hung jury. She was
charged with the fatal shooting
of her first cousin, March 1!), at
616 Commercial Street.
The maximum sentence Mrs.
Ochiho could have received on
the manslaughter charge was 15
years and $5,000. The stale ac
ccptcd the lesser plea after the
weeks trial in which Sam Mc-
Keen, assistant district attor
ney, kept bringing forth evi
dence which he said showed that
the shooting was premeditated.
Mrs. Ochiho s defense was built
around the claim that the shoot
ing was accidental and that Mrs.
Ochiho had no motive for shoot
ing Ster "good friend."
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
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TANKER RESTS ON FLAT CAR A tanker, one of 21 freight cars derailed near
Dorris Sunday night, lies in a field among five other freight cars. In the background is
a railroad crane, or "hook," which was moved to the scene of the derailment early
today to remove the wreckage from the tracks. SP officials speculated that the wreck
age would bo cleared by this afternoon, when trains would resume their regular schedules.
Tougher Cuba Boycott Urged
WASHINGTON (UPIl - Sen.)
Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D., called on
the Kennedy administration today
to tighten what he termed its
"half-hearted" economic boycott
of Cuba.
Mundt recommended a four-;
part program of action "far short!
of war" which would deny U.S.
ports to ships of any country let
ting its vessels trade with Cuba
and would use the foreign aid
program to reward nations join
ing in an anti-Castro ctfort.
He also proposed that the Or
ganization of American States
and NATO be asked officially to
halt trade with Cuba and that
similar requests go to every
other nation outside Communist
domination.
Mundt, in the latest in a series
of Republican Senate speeches on
Date Set For
Contract Award
The Work Saver Body Com
pany of Seattle will be awarded
an $(183,280 contract for repair,
extension and remodeling of
the Klamath Falls Post Office,
the General Services Administra
tion indicated Monday.
The firm's bid was the lowest
of six opened in Seattle June 21.
The Brosterhous Construction
Company. Klamath' Falls, sub
mitted the second lowest bid ot
$959,875.
Howard R. Perrin, architect.
said plans call (or a two-story
annex on the Walnut Avenue side
and one-story additions at t h c
rear and Oak Avenue, side.
The new lacilitics will double
the building's Interior space, the
parking area and tru7k ramp.
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MONDAY, JULY 15, 1063
Cuba, said that the number of
trips by free-world ships to Cuba
had increased since January and
that the "volume of Soviet-bloc
shipping to Cuba seems to be ris
ing." He conceded that there was a
"virtually complete embargo on
U.S.-Cuba trade" in effect since
February 1(162 and that most
Latin American countries were
sharply curtailing their own Cu
ban trade.
But Mundt said a provision of
the Foreign Aid Act denying as
sistance to countries whose ships
carry arms or strategic materials
to Cuba was not being enforced
Promised
Dy I'nllrd Press International
Negro leaders in Cambridge.
Md., planned "peaceful" demon
strations today and segregation
ists and intcgrationists alike com
menced new moves to tip the na
tion's racial dispulc in their fa
vor. Integration leaders in Cam
bridge promised their demonstra
tions would remain within the
bounds of limited martial law
clamped on the town last week
after bloody racial rioting. The
town's white leaders requested a
meeting with Gov. J. Millard
Tawcs as soon as possible to dis
cuss white-Negro tensions.
A Negro leader announced over
the weekend that the demonstra
tions would resume but promised
they could be "welUlisciplined
and peaceful." However, Mrs
Gloria II Richardson, head ol
the Non-Violent Action Commit
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I In the center photo, an empty boxcar lies twisted where it
from the track In the other picture, workmen survey the
Telephone
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ams
as to NATO-type aid to NATO
countries. Thus, he said, the aid
restriction is "virtually inapplic
able." The other present restriction,
Mundt said, is an order of last
February barring U.S. government-financed
cargoes lo foreign
ships that have traded with Cuba
since Jan. I.
The GOP senator called this a
"half-hearted program." He 6aid
the number of trips made by free
world ships lo Cuba "actually
was lower in January, one month
before the administration's order
went into effect, than in any
month since then through May."
By Negro
tee, said if nothing happens
within a week or so we are going
to have to court arrest."
Culm Sunday
Cambridge and Savannah, Ga.,
scenes ol racial violence last
week, were comparatively calm
over the Sabbath.
Alxiul 450 Negroes sang "free
dom songs" Sunday in the shad
ow of a monument to Savannah s
Confederate dead in downtown
Forsyth Park. Three young Ne
groes were arrested for staging
a "wade-in" at nearby Savannah
Beach.
A Negro leader called olf a
protest march because, he said,
police b.-oke up an attempted
march by a white segregationist
group Saturday. If everyone
can't march, we will not march,
said tlw Iiv. Andrew Young.
Young referred to a march by
white egivgationists who got1
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mwmm
A burned out axle on
have caused the derailment
train northbound to Klamath
ly nine miles south of Dorris, about 9:15 p.m. last night,
the local office of the SP
Members of the train
that a burned out "journal," or axle, on a freight car
carrying salt jumped the track, whiplashing 20 other
freight cars in the train into a field on the east side of
the tracks and onto the west
distance from U.S. Highway 97.
(t Most of the derailed cars were flung into the open
field cast of the tracks; many of them were contorted
into masses of twisted steel. The impact of the cars sud
denly upon one another
gether lengthwise, crushing
as they slid from the track.
One metal boxcar, thrown i
about 40 yards from the railroad
was twisted as a pretzel and had
several jagged holes, about four
feet wide, punched in its sides.
tanker car was in a field
where it had flipped upside down
and at midnight last night an
other tank car that had been un
set was spilling inflammable
liquid along the tracks.
The possibility that the liquid
would be set fire brought the
Dorris Fire Department to the
scene but the threat had appar-
ntly been eliminated by early
this morning.
No railroad employes were in
jured, although one man who was
iding inside a boxcar with two
companions received possiDie
back injuries and was t r a n
forrcd by Peace Ambulance to
the Klamath Valley Hospital,
where he was reported in satis
factory condition early Monday.
He was Wilbur Richardson, 44,
of Alturas, who said he ob
served one of his friends leave
the wreckage, but not the other.
Members of the train crew were
unsuccessful in their search for
the alleged missing rider and
doubted that he had been caught
beneath the tram.
Later this morning, one other
person was Injured as 200 rail
road employes souglit to remove
the wreckage that was delaying
southbound trains linking Port
land lo Oakland, Calif., and
ons
Leader
three blocks before police stopped
them. It was one of the first pro
tests of its type during racial
turmoil in the nation, dominated
mainly by Intogralionist demon
strations.
Kight Arrested
In New York, eiglvt members of
the neo-Nazi National Renais
sance Parly N(RP) were arrest
ed Sunday on charges ranging
from conspiring to commit a not
to anarchy when a huge cache of
guns and ammunition was uncov
ered. The arrest came after sev
oral NKP members attempted to
hand out hate literature outside
a Bronx diner, scene of Integra-
tmnist picketing and some vio
lence for the past week.
Gov. George C. Wallace of Ala
bama testified before the Senate
Committee on Commerce on
President Kennedy's proposed
civil rights bill.
came to rest about 40 yards
damage to three other cars.
Weather
AGRICULTURAL FORECAST
Generally fair this week with below
normal temperatures. High 75 to IS
and low 15-45. Showers likely Friday
or Saturday. Haying outlook, good
through Thursday. Eight - inch soil tem
perature M degrees.
it
is
a freight car was believed to
of a Southern Pacific freight
Falls from Dunsmuir, near
railroad disclosed today.
crew speculated late last night
side of the railroad, a scant
folded five of the boxcars to
two of them accordion-like
others northbound from Califor
nia. Injured was Charles Butler of
Eugene who suffered a possible
leg fracture at the scene of the de
railment and was removed to the
local hospital where he was listed
satisfactory.
A spokesman for the SP at
Klamath Falls said that the de
bris was expected to be cleared
from the tracks about 3 p.m. to
day, and thereafter trains would
proceed on schedule.
Early this morning, the local
SP station was teeming with pas
sengers from the Cascade train
which arrived here about mid
night and were held over here
lending the removal of the de
railed train.
"There are so many people in
the station that this is reminis
cent of the years of the last
world war," he said.
The spokesman was unable to
estimate the damage caused by
the wreck, but it is consider
able," he said.
Other railroad representatives
were unable to say how many
freight cars comprised the train
or to speculate as to how fast
the train was travelling at the
lime of the derailment. Each
area of track along the railroad
is posted with a designated speed
limit for its particular section, it
was said.
Ruling Gives
Southern Pine
Plywood Rate
WASHINGTON (UPD-The first
commercial standards and specifi
cations for the production of ply
wood from Southern Pine timber
have been set by the Department
of Commerce.
The announcement clears the
way for manufacture of plywood
Irom southern pine on a commer
cial basis. Georgia-Pacific Corp.
started construcuon the first mill
at Fordyce, Ark., in June. U. S.
Plywood has announced plans .
a mill in cooperation with South
ern Pine Lumber Co. at Diboll,
Tex.
Pine plywood will be inter
changeable with widely - used
Douglas fir plywood, according to
T. M. Orth, who served on the
standards committee.
Test runs to prove the feasibili
ty of using pine logs in mass
production of plywood were suc
cessful at plywood milts in the
south and at Douglas fir plywood
mills onfcb West Cotlt.